After all, look how well that Cash-For-Fighting-Terror thing worked out in Pakistan! Anyway, will our Friends and Allies the Saudis come across from Al-Qaeda in Yemen? What exactly would stop them?
“Yemen’s Qaeda wing seeks donations in Saudi Arabia,” from Reuters, September 27 (thanks to Maxwell):
DUBAI, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s Yemeni wing is targeting Saudi individuals to ask for donations to support its fight against the U.S.-allied government of Sanaa, Al Arabiya television reported on Sunday….
Arabiya aired a video showing a Saudi member of the group it identified as Saeed al-Shehri urging fellow Saudis to donate money to support al Qaeda fighters in Yemen.“The bearer of this message is trusted by us,” the militant said after making his request. It was not immediately clear if any arrests were made or how the recording was acquired….
Twin suicide car bombings outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa a year ago killed 16 people. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility….
Four Yemenis carrying hand grenades, automatic weapons and ammunition. and guns were arrested near the U.S. embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Yemen’s Interior Ministry said earlier this month, but did not say when they were arrested….
International concern over Yemen has grown because of the risk that instability there could endanger neighbours including Saudi Arabia and complicate efforts to combat al Qaeda and piracy in the Gulf of Aden.The United States has offered to help Yemen in its “fight against terrorism”. U.S. President Barack Obama said in a letter to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh earlier this month that the United States will “stand beside Yemen, its unity, security and stability”.
How reassuring!